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The Silent Vulnerability: Why Non-Human Identities Are Now Prime for Exploitation

The Silent Vulnerability: Why Non-Human Identities Are Now Prime for Exploitation

Mar 4, 2026 By Bharath Rangamannar, SVP Engineering In Reach Security
The explosive growth of nonhuman identities (NHIs) has quietly become one of the most pressing cybersecurity challenges of the modern enterprise. Machine identities, API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, digital certificates, and other automated credentials now outnumber human identities by ever-growing ratios, sometimes by as much as 50 to one. However, despite their ubiquity and critical operational role, NHIs rarely receive the same level of governance or scrutiny as human-centered identities. Visibility is fragmented, controls are inconsistent, and access is often far broader than it needs to be.
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manageengine

The security gaps that caused 2025's biggest breaches

Mar 4, 2026 By bhuvaneswari.kg@zohocorp.com In ManageEngine
As cybercrime becomes increasingly complex, the line between resilience and catastrophe becomes increasingly thin. In 2025, healthcare, automotive, financial, defense, and technology companies suffered massive breaches that cost billions in losses, exposed millions of compromised records, and caused months of operational paralysis.
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Snyk

The 89% Problem: How LLMs Are Resurrecting the "Dormant Majority" of Open Source

Mar 4, 2026 By Noa Yaffe-Ermoza In Snyk
AI coding assistants are quietly resurrecting millions of abandoned open source packages. For the last decade, developers relied on a simple heuristic for open source security: Prevalence \= Trust. If a package was downloaded millions of times a week (lodash, react, requests), we assumed it was "safe enough" because thousands of eyes were on it. If it was obscure, we approached with caution.
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LimaCharlie

Introducing LimaCharlie Ticketing: Built for Detection, not Adapted from IT

Mar 4, 2026 By LimaCharlie In LimaCharlie
Sr. Technical Content Strategist Most ticketing tools SecOps teams use today were never built for security. Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty are all capable platforms but ultimately adapted for a purpose outside of their design. The result is brittle workflows, manual overhead, and systems that require constant care to stay aligned with the natural flow of detection and response. LimaCharlie Ticketing fills that gap.
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acronis

How to meet critical compliance regulations in pharmaceutical manufacturing

Mar 4, 2026 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Pharmaceutical regulation relies on three core pillars: Maximum system availability, trustworthy data and rapid recoverability. With the right strategy, manufacturers can uphold them all. Operational technology (OT) systems such as SCADA, manufacturing execution systems, cleanroom controls, environmental monitors and laboratory automation are essential for maintaining validated, compliant and uninterrupted production. When those systems fail, downtime can result in enormous financial costs.
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miniorange

Insider Threat Prevention: Steps, Types & Detection Tools

Mar 4, 2026 By Minal Purwar In miniOrange
When security leaders talk about risk, the conversation usually drifts toward ransomware gangs, zero-day exploits, or state-sponsored actors. Fair enough. Those threats are loud and visible. Yet many of the most damaging breaches begin somewhere quieter. Inside the organization. An employee exporting a customer database before resigning. A contractor reusing credentials across systems. A system administrator with broad privileges and very little oversight.
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levelblue

LevelBlue Named a Finalist for the 2026 SC Media Awards for Best Managed Security Service

Mar 4, 2026 By LevelBlue In LevelBlue
LevelBlue is excited to announce that SC Media has selected us as a finalist for the 2026 SC Media Awards under the Best Managed Security Service category. For 29 years, the SC Awards have recognized companies and individuals driving innovation in cybersecurity and those working every day to defend our digital world and advance the practice of information security.
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cloudflare

Defeating the deepfake: stopping laptop farms and insider threats

Mar 4, 2026 By Ann Ming Samborski In Cloudflare
Trust is the most expensive vulnerability in modern security architecture. In recent years, the security industry has pivoted toward a zero trust model for networks — assuming breach and verifying every request. Yet when it comes to the people behind those requests, we often default back to implicit trust. We trust that the person on the Zoom call is who they say they are. We trust that the documents uploaded to an HR portal are genuine. That trust is now being weaponized at an unprecedented scale.
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